


Medallion's white citizens are moving up into the Bottom and building homes, television towers, and plush golf courses. When it begins, the narrator is explaining what has happened to the Bottom, the black neighborhood in the Ohio hills above the valley town of Medallion. Also, she questions to what extent mothers will go to protect their children from a harsh world, and whether or not these maternal instincts ultimately are productive or harmful. Morrison delves into the strong female relationships between the novel's women and how these bonds both nurture and threaten individual female identity. Sula, Morrison's second novel, focuses on a young black girl named Sula, who matures into a strong and determined woman in the face of adversity and the distrust, even hatred, of her by the black community in which she lives.
